The poem "In the Bunker" was written on April 8th, 1945 by an anonymous prisoner.

"Bunker" was one of the words that inspired terror in the concentration camp. To be sentenced to this special imprisonment meant little chance of coming out alive. Of the often accompanying whippings on the bare behind, the condemned could - depending on their constitution at the time of the beating - barely survive more than twenty. 25 lashes delivered twice meant certain death. Anything and everything could be punished. Even the writing or ownership of poems. The Russian woman Zina M. Kudrjawzewa described how the SS guard Dorothea Binz one day found a piece of paper with a poem on her. She sentenced her to 15 lashes and a day without food. Later Zina M. Kudrjawzewa wrote another poem. Again the SS discovered her authorship and she received a tortuous punishment: three days in the bunker without food, for the most part spent standing in cold water. (C. Jaiser)